Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy.

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.

Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.

Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.

The only thing Christianity can not be...is moderately important.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.